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Another week flew by. Thursday was spent in bed with a bad case of food poisoning. All because I decided it would be nice not to have to cook from scratch every once in a while, and bought some coconut-crusted tilapia fillets. They seemed innocent enough, but I can't think of anything else I ate that might have caused such major stomach disturbance. I never get sick from my own home-cooked food, and the oven-baked potato chips or brussel sprouts in butter sauce I had on the side with the fish are certainly NOT guilty either, because I'd had them before with no unpleasant consequences whatsoever. Anyway... lesson learned - yet again. Healthy eating = cooking from scratch = the only way that works for me, no matter how much time and planning it takes and how tempting it is to let go sometimes, if only for once. Frozen entrees - even the supposedly 'healthy' ones - don't like me, and they're out to get me, LOL. And as for saving time, I'd much rather have spent that Thursday afternoon cooking than lying down in a fetal position with a bag of frozen peas pressed to my forehead.:/

Yesterday I finally visited my sister and her husband's new apartment (they moved a few months ago, but they're always so busy, there just wasn't a good time to drop by). It's a cool old-fashioned place in a quiet suburb by the lake. Looks almost like a summer house in a tiny European town, with a wooden deck facing away from the street, plenty of trees, and the quaint German-style buildings all around. Perfect surroundings for artists to live in.:) I also met the resident cat, Precious, who gave me the official seal of approval by jumping onto my lap and making herself comfortable there for at least an hour (and nearly crushing my stomach in the process - it's a very substantial cat, to put it mildly ;). And my sister showed me their art school's new website, which she's been working on (still under construction, but looking great), as well as their profile on Facebook. For those who do hang around Facebook, it's called the Ravenswood Atelier. You can see most of my sister's paintings under "faculty art". There are also cool pics of the school itself - namely the giant art studio, located just a few blocks away from where I live. I've been there several times, admiring some of the paintings as 'works in progress'. It's a supercool, amazing thing that my baby sister is a 'co-founder and principal instructor' in an art school, isn't it? I still can't believe it sometimes. At least some people in this world are able to make their dreams come true...

Other than that, I don't have any news. Just a little bit of gushing over Dany&Dany's latest comic, Anima. ( Read more... )